Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects ...

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Rare footage was captured just after sunset Monday, July 15, of glowing fireworms in Newport Harbor. The tiny worms lit up the dark water in a mating ritual, the females luring their mates with a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — After the sun went down in late June, one Bailey resident found something lighting up on the ground outside her back deck. Just outside in a rocky area, Elizabeth Fuller said she found ...

The bright lights of big cities are wonders of the modern world; intended to help us work, stay safe and enjoy the world around us long after the sun has set. While artificial light has been great for ...

The BDA Glow Worm Society arose out of a joke. A few years ago, boat pilot and diver Chris Gauntlett posted a question on social media, asking when the glow worms would be out. Every month during the ...

Ruakuri Cave in Waitomo, New Zealand has a mesmerizing blue glow that is a sight to behold, but the beautiful light comes from an unexpected source: glow worms. The glow worms hang from the cave ...

In the darkness of caves and forests, a silent trap is set - woven from light. In this episode, we explore how glow worms use bioluminescence to create one of nature’s most mesmerizing hunting ...

"The fascination of glow worms for me is that they are in effect magic," says ecologist Pete Cooper, as he tramples through thistles and nettles. "The glow worm has been the symbol of the other world, ...

The soil roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 959 cells and a body that is mostly gut and reproductive organs. Yet its reproduction is similar enough to ours that scientists like Francis McNally ...